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Home Cage Analyzer (ActualHCA)

ActualHCA - ActualHCA (Home Cage Analyzer)

24x7 Data Capture and Analysis of
Complex Behaviors of Group Housed Rodents in their Real Home Cage!

Rodent
behavior analysis plays a vital role in drug discovery, from the development of
disease models through to safety pharmacology. ActualAnalytics has developed an
innovative home cage analysis system that provides 24/7 monitoring of rodent
behaviors in a group-housed environment that is beneficial from both data and
welfare perspectives. This is the next generation of Rodent analysis technology
surpassing all other technologies and methods available today.

ActualHCA
is an add-on system to rodent home cage systems. It is compatible with a range
of rat and mouse homecages and racking systems including IVC systems. The
system sites alongside a normal homecage and collects data from the group of
animals in the adjacent cage.

Main
Features:

Monitoring
of animals in their normal homecage

Compatible
with normal social group housed animals

Identity
is retained

Automatic
annotation of behaviors and activity

24/7
Recordings

ActualHCA
has three core elements to the product:

1.
Capture

Each
system comes with all the hardware and software you need to capture your
data

It
comprises an RFID baseplate, HD infrared camera, mini computer, lighting,
and all of the necessary software to capture your data 24/7

You
can network multiple units together and link them to a central server for
processing

Each
cage can stand alone, be networked in a small local network, or connected
to your main network

2.
Analyze

Our
system provides very high quality data. Below you can see screen shots of
common behaviors.

ActualHCA
combines two technical approaches to the problem - Under each cage sites a
low-profile 2D array of RFID readers. As the rodents move around their identity
and approximate position are recorded. The homecage is also illuminated by an
array of infrared lights and the cage video recorded in HD quality. Analytical
software then processes the data and automatically extracts key behavioral
events. An optional feature can also enable the system to record the
temperature of each animal.

Could
identify "at risk" individuals to back-up/pre-warn welfare
decision making

2.
Drug withdrawal phenomena

Different
classes of drugs with dependence potential cause different patterns of
effects on cessation of treatment. However, these usually include changes
in activity, behavior, temperature, and food intake.